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A degree is an academic qualification that lasts a lifetime. Certification is short term, as they have to be kept up to date.

Certificates are more job specific, so may get you specific employment more readily than a degree.

Have you considered an MBA? that plus certificates is a powerful combination, particularly if you have management ambitions

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

Hmmm, not you have totally put me off course! Ill have to check up on it though. The thing with BSC touches on alot of things (programming, statistics etc) that are sort of interesting. yes I could do programming as a cert though.

But I will have a look, thanks again for the post

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.Albert Einstein

Kidding aside, I went into a CS minor program having no idea that CS was programming. I failed out. Didn't realize until it was too late that I'm not a programmer, and I wanted the MIS minor program.

Hmm, the university I currently attend has programming in their information sciences curriculum as well. Its Java, but some people seem to have trouble with the whole object oriented thing? I don't know...maybe its just because I've been coding for so long...